MEMORANDA
Alumni News 1940s James M. Snead ’49 spent 54 years in clinical social work and plans to retire this year. He works in family and parent-child counseling in Ft. Myers, Florida.
Donna Southwood-Smith ’86 earned her Master of Arts in Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from American University. A member of the U.S. Air Force for 25 years, she previously taught college-level English to speakers of other languages. Susannah Chewning ’87 published “Intersections of Courtly Romance and the Anchoritic Tradition: Chevelere Assigne and Ancrene Wisse” in the Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures.
1990s
Jim Dedman ’65 resumed pro bono teaching of law to government attorneys.
Gregory T. Wilkins ’90 received a McKnight Fellowship from the State of Minnesota's Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council to document Bangladesh's fast fashion and the sweatshop industry. He will also complete global service in the Southern Hemisphere — Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Borneo and Bangladesh.
1970s
2000s
Amanda Becker ’71 married Robert Mosko, of Hanover, Pennsylvania, in September 2014.
Rosa (Sprinkle) Sleigh ’01 and husband, David, welcomed twin baby girls, Lucy Sprinkle and Eloise Elizabeth, Dec. 12, 2015. They join their brothers, Sam and Oscar.
1960s
Mary Beth (Brandjord) Evers ’77 retired after 34 years of teaching elementary school.
1980s Paula (Closson) Buck ’81, who teaches at Bucknell University, published “Summer on the Cold War Planet: A Novel” in September 2015. The story is set 25 years ago, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Adam Fajardo ’05 completed his doctorate in English at Indiana University and is an assistant professor of English at Georgia Gwinnett College. Matthew George ’05 earned his doctorate in physical therapy from Western Carolina University. He and his wife, Chelsea Peterson ’08, moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma. They welcomed a son in July 2014. Bertram Keppel ’05 married Elvi Loos ’04 in October 2015.
Sky Stephens ’01 welcomed twin girls, Avery and Fiona, Oct. 22, 2015. They join their sister, Hannah. Elizabeth "Blair" Larcen ’03 works as a beer ranger at New Belgium Brewing in Richmond, Virginia. Joey Honeycutt ’04 earned a master’s degree in social work and is enrolled in divinity school at Duke University. Natascia Boeri ’05, a doctoral candidate in sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, received a Dissertation Writing Fellowship from the American Association of University Women. She spent 12 months conducting research on home-based workers in the informal economy in Ahmedabad, India, which led to a doctoral dissertation research grant from the National Science Foundation in 2013.
Shiras Manning ’05 received a master's degree in MexicanAmerican studies with a concentration in health from the University of Arizona. After working as a researcher at a Nogales, Mexico, migrant shelter and volunteering as an EMT with the fire department on the Pascua Yaqui reservation, she moved to Pennsylvania to earn a physician’s assistant degree. Heather Wilson ’06 works as the acquisitions and electronic resources librarian at the California Institute of Technology. Pat Addabbo ’08 is a program director with Oregon Adaptive Sports in Bend, Oregon. Curry Anton ’08 and her sister, Georgia Anton ’09, founded the nonprofit Ohana Amani, which means “peace between those who breathe together,” in Tanzania. Amanda Bilyk ’08 is now a doctor of Oriental medicine in Stuart, Florida. Ryan Morra ’08 works at Shelburne Farms in Education for Sustainability in Vermont and shared sustainability practices with students and teachers in China’s Yunnan Province.
J. Kim (Zapata) Wright ’81 completed her eighth year as a location independent nomad, traveling around the world on a mission to transform law. In India, she reunited with classmate Raju Makhijani. After spending three years in South Africa, she was a speaker and organizer of the Lawyers as Peacemakers conference hosted by the National University of South Africa Institute for Dispute Resolution in Africa. The American Bar Association published her 2016 book, “Lawyers as Changemakers, the Emerging International Integrative Law Movement.”
Dustin "Dimitri" Schemel ’08 works at Dwell Home Rewards.
2010s
Julia Nunnally Duncan ’82 MFA’84 retired from McDowell Technical Community College in Marion, North Carolina, after 30 years. Kathy (Robinson) White ’82 bought a vintage motorhome and plans to see a bit of the country while working for Amazon.com. She started her journey in Campbellsville, Kentucky, and then headed to Florida and South Dakota.
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Sarah Bourne Rafferty ’05 married John Rafferty in May 2015 and moved to West Chester, Pennsylvania. She is a high school photography teacher at a private school near Philadelphia.
Adrianne Webb-Mitchell Anderson ’10 married Scott Anderson ’13 in October 2014.
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